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Jan 1, 1280
Ottoman Founder Was Born
Osman, founder of the Ottoman Empire was born in 1280. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Otttoman Empire Reign
Ottoman History"Named after its founder Osman Bey, the Ottomans were settled as a tribe in Sogut at the beginning of the great 600 hundred-year-old Empire." -
Jan 1, 1301
Osman Becomes Sultan
Osman Bey founded the Ottoman nation and became the sultan, establishing the Ottomans as a true Empire. -
Jan 1, 1350
Ottoman Expansion
Map of Ottoman Expansion Throughout the 14th CenturyThe Ottomans' location on the borders of the Byzantine empire afforded them ample opportunity to wage holy war. First great success came from the capture of the Anatolian city of Bursa. Bursa became the Ottoman capital. Around 1352 the Ottomans' seized the fortress of Gallipoli while aiding a claimant to the Byzantine throne. -
Jan 1, 1453
Mehmed the Conqueror and Capital Switch
Mehmed the Conqueror reigned from 1451 to 1481. Within that 30 years, he Captured Constantinople in 1453 and it became Istanbul, the new Ottoman capital. He created an absolute monarchy and a centeralized state. -
Jan 1, 1501
Ismail Becomes Shah of Persia
Ismail 1486–1524, shah of Persia (1502–24), founder of the Safavid dynasty. He restored Persia to the position of a sovereign state for the first time since the Arab invasion of Persia. Ismail established the Shiite form of Islam as the state religion; this gained him the animosity of the Uzbeks and the Ottoman Turks, who were Sunni Muslims. He initiated a long series of border wars between the Ottoman Turks and the Persians. -
Jan 1, 1501
The Savavid Empire Began
The Ottoman Empire was by far the most powerful empire in the Islamic world in the 15th century, but by 1501 in Persia and 1526 in India, the Ottomans had competition. The Safavid Empire in Persia, which was established by Ismail I in 1501 and lasted until its overthrow by Afghan invaders in 1722, was the shortest-lived of the three Great Islamic Empires, but it was influential nonetheless, particularly because of its adherence to Shi'a Islam as the official religion. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire Rule
The Safavid EmpireThe Safavid Empire was a powerful Islamic empire that began in 1501 and ended in 1723. -
Jan 1, 1508
Ismail Defeats the Uzbeks
In 1508 Ismail took Baghdad, and then turned east, to battle the Uzbeks in Central Asia, who threatened his eastern frontier. -
Jan 1, 1508
Ismail Conquers Baghdad
In 1508, Shah Ismail ordered the massacre of Sunni Muslims. Also in this same year he conquered Baghdad. What started all this was the Ottoman sultan and Ismail. Ismail sent Shiite preachers into Anatolia to convert Ottomans into Shiite. The sultan tried to stop it, but Ismail refused and killed many Shiites. -
Jan 1, 1512
The Vigorous Ottoman Expansion
From 1512 to 1566, Sultan Selim the Grim reigned from 1512-1520 and occupied Syria and Egypt, followed by Suleyman the Magnificent who reigned from 1520-1566 and expanded into southwest Asia and central Europe. -
Jan 1, 1523
Babur Founds Mughal Empire
A Central Asian Turkish Adventurer named Babur invaded India in 1523, seized the Delhi in 1526, founding the Mongol Dynasty in India. By his death in 1530, The Mughal Empire embraced most of India. -
Period: Jan 1, 1526 to
Mughal Empire Reign
The Mughal EmpireMuslim dynasty that ruled most of northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th century. The dynasty's rulers, descended from Timur and Genghis Khan, included unusually talented rulers over the course of seven generations, and the dynasty was further distinguished by its emperors' efforts to integrate Hindus and Muslims into a united Indian state. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6XLfDRXhps&feature=rel -
Jan 1, 1530
Humayun Reigns
TimelineHumayun succeeded his father, Babur. Humayun was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530–1540 and again from 1555–1556. Like his father, Babur, he lost his kingdom early, but with Persian aid, he eventually regained an even larger one. -
Jan 1, 1555
The Safavids and the Ottoman's Declare Peace
The Safavid and the Ottoman Empires feuded for years back and forth waging war upon each other's territory. -
Jan 1, 1556
Akbar The Great Reigns
Akbar reigned from 1556 to 1605. He was a brilliant charismatic ruler who created a centralized, absolutist government and expanded the nation to Gujurat, Bengal, and southern India. He encouraged religious tolerance between Muslims and Hindus and developed a syncretic religion called "divine faith." -
Jan 1, 1580
The Ottman's Attack the Savavid
In the 1580s, the Ottomans put Azerbaijan and Caspian Sea under the Ottoman control with their fleets.This forced the Safavid to move the capital to Isfahan. -
The Reign of Shah Abbas I Began
Abbas came to the throne during a troubled time for Iran. Under his weak-willed father, the country was riven with discord between the different factions of the Qizilbash army, who killed Abbas' mother and elder brother. In 1587, one of the Qizilbash leaders, Murshid Qoli Khan, overthrew Shah Mohammed in a coup and placed the 16-year-old Abbas on the throne. -
Shah Abbas I Reign Ends
Abbas was no puppet and soon seized power for himself. He reduced the influence of the Qizilbash in the government and the military and reformed the army, enabling him to fight the Ottomans and Uzbeks and reconquer Iran's lost provinces. He also took back land from the Portuguese and the Mughals. Abbas was a great builder and moved his kingdom's capital from Qazvin to Isfahan. In his later years, the shah became suspicious of his own sons and had them killed or blinded. -
The Savavid and the Ottomans Declare Peace...Again
The Safavid and the Ottoman Empires feuded for years back and forth waging war upon each other's territory.
The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1623–1639 was the last of a series of conflicts fought between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Persia.The Safavids and Ottomans finally declare peace. -
Aurangzeb Rules
Aurangzeb ruled from 1659 to 1707 and expanded the empire to almost the entire Indian subcontinent. He also revoked policies of toleration. He taxed the Hindus and destroyed temples. Religious tensions and hostility ended his reign. -
British East India Trade Company Moves In
British East India Company is chartered. The Company's Indian trade in the first half of the 18th century seemed to be established on a stable and profitable basis. Conditions in India were certainly changing. The Mughal empire had disintegrated and was being replaced by a variety of regional states. Foreign powers take over, the empire breaks and becomes a trade network. -
The Safavid Empire Collapses
The Safavid Empire was the shortest-lived of the three, forming in 1501 and suffering its final collapse at the hands of the invading Afghans in 1722. It forever influenced Persian nationalism, however, and out of the remnants of the Safavid Empire grew the present-day country of Iran. -
The Battle of Plassey
The British overpower the Mughal forces and take control. -
End of the Mughal Empire
Through the Trade Company and war, the British have taken over the Mughal Empire and have finally brought the Mongol reign to an end. -
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Many debate what caused the end of the Ottomans, from World War to the Economy. But many say that in his time the financial situation of the Empire was troubling, and certain social classes had long been oppressed under difficult taxes. Due to this economical crisis and other opposing threats, the Ottoman Empire declared bankruptcy and fell.
